Jamie Nicholls (born October 15, 1971) is a Canadian social democrat and politician, who currently serves as the mayor of Hudson, Quebec.
Born in Montreal and raised in Hudson, Nicholls attended both St-Thomas elementary and Hudson High School.
He became a New Democrat while enrolled at Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University) in Nanaimo, BC at the age of 18.
He graduated from the University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts in 1995.
During that period, he was an outspoken social and environmental activist in Victoria, BC.
Upon graduating, Nicholls lived and taught in South Korea and Turkey.
He was a lecturer in Visual Communication Design in the Faculty of Communications at Istanbul's Bahcesehir University until 2003.
He returned to Canada to pursue a graduate degree in Landscape Architecture from the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia.
Graduating in 2007, he returned to Quebec to work as a Landscape architect.
Nicholls is a former Member of Parliament in Canada's 41st parliament.
He was elected to represent Vaudreuil-Soulanges in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election.
On June 20, 2011 Jack Layton appointed him to serve as the Vice-Chair for standing committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities for the official opposition.
In 2015, he was appointed Vice-Chair for the standing committee on Official Languages.
He was defeated in the 2015 Red Tide election by Liberal Peter Schiefke.In November 2017, Nicholls was elected mayor of Hudson, QC.
He lives in Hudson with his wife Amanda MacDonald and their three children.